Vessel Day Scheme here to stay
![Skipjack tuna is offloaded from the “Marshalls 201” purse seiner in Majuro lagoon for transshipment to off-shore canneries. Purse seiners fish under PNA’s Vessel Day Scheme that generated an estimated $400 million to PNA members last year. Photo: Giff Johnson. Vessel Day Scheme here to stay](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PNA-4-15.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
A Pacific island fisheries bloc has unanimously decided to maintain a management system that has increased revenue to the islands by over 500 percent in the past six years. Despite criticism by countries outside of this western and central Pacific fishery of a management system used to regulate the tuna industry, fisheries officials from the […]